Hello there,
I am tracking Vileda Infinity Flex, halvin hinta 69€ for changes. However, the site keeps changing some GET-url parameters - which I don’t care about.
If I ignore the a element, then text won’t be shown.
Any suggestions?
I already read Webpage selector ignore constantly changing area, ://forums.distill.io/t/webpage-selector-ignore-constantly-changing-area/2030 - but couldn’t find a way to apply it to me
Can you share a screenshot of the page highlighting what you need to monitor?
I’d like to remove all the reds (this is still not perfect, but maybe it leads to less meaningless updates.
I like this style though, since the page renders “mostly completely” for archiving purposes
bump? bump? bump?
sorry, the reply slipped through the posts. deselecting the elements will remove those elements from monitoring. can you share an example of the change that you would like to silence?
I want to track all changes on the page except for changes in <a href> attributes. The issue is that some links contain dynamic query parameters (e.g., ?session=1234), which change frequently but are irrelevant to what I’m monitoring.
For example, if the original HTML is:
<a href="https://example.com/page?session=1234">Click here</a>
And later it updates to:
<a href="https://example.com/page?session=5678">Click here</a>
I do not want this change to trigger an alert. However, if the link text or other page content changes, I do want to be notified.
Is there a way in Distill.io to ignore changes in href attributes while still tracking all other content updates?
By default, Distill monitors text only. So, for your example, if your selector is a, it will monitor the text Click here. It won’t monitor href value.
Did you change the monitored field from text to something else like innerHTML as explained in Monitor Attribute Value?
If you are monitoring text but are receiving some unwanted alerts, you should check its change history in text mode. That will help in analyzing what text is triggering an alert.